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Exclusive Korean Spicy Cabbage

Exclusive Korean Spicy Cabbage

This traditional cabbage kimchi follows the old way: leaves salted and pressed for a day, rinsed, then layered with a fragrant fruit-and-radish filling for deep fermented flavor.

Instructions

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    Wash the Chinese cabbage.

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    Folded in half.

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    Spread salt on each piece of cabbage and bean.

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    Spread it all evenly.

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    Place a heavy object on top and let it pickle for one day. When pressing it with the heavy object, cover the cabbage with a clean food bag.

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    It looks like it has been marinated for more than ten hours.

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    After repeatedly rinsing with water, place it on a strainer, then on a cutting board, and then put a heavy object on it to drain the water completely.

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    Wash the apples, pears, and white radish.

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    Boil water in a pot.

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    Add glutinous rice flour, stir until it boils, then let it cool.

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    Peel the garlic and wash it clean.

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    Cut the radish into pieces.

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    Clean the ginger and cut it into pieces, put it together with the radish into a meat grinder, add garlic cloves, and grind into a paste.

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    Take chili sauce, chili powder, and fish sauce.

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    Take the shrimp paste.

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    Peel the apples and pears.

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    Shred into thin strips.

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    Let the porridge made from glutinous rice flour cool completely, then add shrimp paste, fish sauce, chili sauce, and chili powder.

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    Add shredded fruit and vegetable puree.

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    Add chicken essence.

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    Stir evenly.

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    Cabbage with the water squeezed out.

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    A layer of cabbage leaves with a layer of marinade.

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    Even the last piece of choy sum should be evenly coated with marinade.

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    Get everything ready.

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    Place it in a clean, dry, and oil-free pickle jar, and after fermenting for a few days, it can be eaten.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • Chinese cabbage
    6kg
  • autumn pear
    1 piece
  • Apple
    1 piece
  • white radish
    1 piece
  • glutinous rice flour
    1 tbsp
  • Pure water
    500g
  • rain and dew
    100g
  • Garlic
    150g

Seasonings

  • table salt
    some
  • Chili sauce
    250g
  • shrimp paste
    80g
  • chicken essence
    6g

Auxiliary Ingredients

  • chili powder
    125g
  • Scallions and ginger
    100g